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<td class="v">3:1</td>
<td>Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;</td>
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<td class="v">3:2</td>
<td>Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;</td>
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<td class="v">3:3</td>
<td>Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.</td>
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<td class="v">3:4</td>
<td>And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.</td>
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<td class="v">3:5</td>
<td>And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:</td>
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<td class="v">3:6</td>
<td>And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.</td>
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<td class="v">3:7</td>
<td>And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.</td>
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<td class="v">3:8</td>
<td>Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.</td>
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<td class="v">3:9</td>
<td>And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.</td>
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<td class="v">3:10</td>
<td>And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.</td>
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<td class="v">3:11</td>
<td>And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.</td>
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<td class="v">3:12</td>
<td>And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">3:13</td>
<td>And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.</td>
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<td class="v">3:14</td>
<td>So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.</td>
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<td class="v">3:15</td>
<td>But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.</td>
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<td class="v">3:16</td>
<td>But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.</td>
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<td class="v">3:17</td>
<td>And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.</td>
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<td class="v">3:18</td>
<td>And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.</td>
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<td class="v">3:19</td>
<td>But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.</td>
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<td class="v">3:20</td>
<td>And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.</td>
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<td class="v">3:21</td>
<td>And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:</td>
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<td class="v">3:22</td>
<td>And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.</td>
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<td class="v">3:23</td>
<td>Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.</td>
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<td class="v">3:24</td>
<td>When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.</td>
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<td class="v">3:25</td>
<td>And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.</td>
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<td class="v">3:26</td>
<td>And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.</td>
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<td class="v">3:27</td>
<td>And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.</td>
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<td class="v">3:28</td>
<td>And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.</td>
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<td class="v">3:29</td>
<td>And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.</td>
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<td class="v">3:30</td>
<td>So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.</td>
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<td class="v">3:31</td>
<td>And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.</td>
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